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Recent Articles

A Taste of Place: Magnolia Dinner​By Andrea Blum, Montalvo Culinary ArtistThis week, magnolias are in bloom. It’s one of my favorite flowers and I look forward to finding them in the landscape each year. Even when the spent flowers tumble to the table, I still love the branches! I adorned the table this week with flowering magnolia branches, and as you can see, the conversation around the table happened under, around and through them. ​​Read More >>

ON THE MENU: Lamb Leg BrochettesTonight we used fire to cook the meal, welcoming new residents who have come great distances to the warm dinner at the Lucas Artists Program, and the tastes of red radishes with olive oil and sea salt, carrots with cardamom, brussels sprouts with date syrup . . .​Read More >>

ON THE MENU: Artists Eat Crab​Some dinners take concentration. When artists eat crab, it gets mighty quiet. Just the sound of cracking shells, a muted, industrious sound with short snippets of conversation.​​Read More >>

A Taste of Place: "Heaven is Leftover Indian Food!"By Andrea Blum, Montalvo Culinary ArtistSome of my best kitchen memories are from cooking with women in home kitchens around the world. I am especially excited when these worldly women (and men) come to the culinary kitchen at the Lucas Artists Program and share their life stories and food. On Friday, Shirisha Gopisetti, a volunteer in the Montalvo gardens, came with her daughter Manasi to help make the artists' lunch. We planned a vegan Indian menu together.​Read More >>​

Endoscopic Sound: Yasuhiro Usui & Kio GriffithBy Lori Wood, Lucas Artists Residency ManagerVisual artist Kio Griffith handed Henry Threadgill a thin wand with a light on its tip: the new endoscope Griffith had delivered to the LAP two weeks ago. And the lights went out and the sound experience began. Across the sail, Kio projected images drawn from the Montalvo grounds, mixed with live images that Threadgill created while drawing the lens of the endoscope closely across the objects on the table.​Read More >>

Notes from Montalvo - Laurie Anderson​By Emily K. Holmes​During Anderson's recent month-long residency at the Lucas Artists Program, Emily K. Holmes of Art Practical met with her to discuss her past multidisciplinary projects, her views on current political events, and her future book All the Things I Lost in the Flood: Essays on Pictures, Language, and Code.​Read More >>